Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Bruce Springsteen's latest CD is a collection of songs from folk singer Pete Seeger.
When I was growing up in Manassas during the 60's (I was going to say "turbulent 60's", but it was relatively peaceful in my little town), my parents indulged my Bob Dylan/protest song interest by giving me the Dangerous Songs! album by [...]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Richmond's NBC-12 did a story last night on a controversy that I was not aware of, even though it pertains to my county, Chesterfield, and my professional area, economic development. It seems that Chesterfield County's new economic development director has a county-paid golf membership at a City of Richmond country club. The cost [...]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Secretary's Day, or Administrative Professional's Day, passed this week without mention here at CC. Over at the Slate Fray, however, there are scores of horror stories from administrative workers about how they are treated on Secretary's Day and year round.
I know that I am offended daily by the treatment petty potentates of the [...]
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Congratulations are in order for Rob Whitney, the Exec. Director of Americans for Prosperity, and a friend of Commonwealth Conservative. Rob evidently got married yesterday.
I'm going to assume that my invitation got lost in the mail.
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
Over at One Man's Trash, Norm writes of today's Dan Henninger column in the Wall Street Journal, a not-so-friendly dismissal of blogs, beginning with the fact that a recently arrested cannibal was a blogger.
Meanwhile, a "free speech monument" in Charlottesville, where anyone, cannibals included, can post their thoughts in chalk, is dedicated with [...]
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
As the Virginian-Pilot reports that area gas stations are running out of product because of a mandated ethanol conversion, it's interesting to note the approved reasons to be outraged over fuel prices.
The evil oil companies are number one, of course--bashing them is highly recommended and always well-received. Middle East politics is another approved reason. [...]
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
As Patrick County becomes the latest Virginia locality to grapple with windmill turbine electricity generation, this Anne Applebaum column in the Washington Post is good background reading on the issue of windmills specifically and "clean" energy generally. Ms. Applebaum is not optimistic about the future: The problem plaguing new energy developments is no [...]
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Asked yesterday by reporters about the Toyota story (when he was doing more important work at the Norfolk Ford plant), Governor Kaine said, "I don't talk about prospects." That's the right answer and I hope the Governor's words will serve as guidance to others.
Already some are urging Virginia to join a bidding war for [...]
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
After my post on the Toyota leak/confirmation/wishful thinking story, Jerry at From On High adds some useful information from around the country to the record and Jim Bacon bolsters the economic development faux pas aspect.
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Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Happy Easter to all (and that includes you, too, Chad!). If you're not in the mood for indignation on this holiday, please read no further.
There's a story on the front page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch that I hope is true: Toyota has approached Virginia about locating an automobile-assembly plant in the state, a Kaine [...]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Ford is closing its Norfolk truck plant. This is a huge blow.
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Seems like a good time for an open thread. You guys and gals always impress me when I ask for suggestions, so here goes:
What's a good book that you've read recently?
Gimme a movie I should see, either recent or classic.
What about television? Is there anything on worth watching?
I'm declaring this [...]
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
I guess it's only news that the Spotsylvania GOP chairman is moving if it's our old friend Shaun Kenney. I imagine his URL will remain the same.
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
I can't find it online, but today's print edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch has a Rex Bowman story about a proposal to put a wind turbine farm in the mountains of Patrick County. The proposal will likely be as controversial as the one still festering in Highland County.
And who should be quoted in the [...]
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
I never revealed my response to this question. Only one person guessed it correctly.
Check out comment number 19 for the answer.
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
I've been thinking about this as a topic for an open thread for a while:
If you could spend one day with anyone in the world, who would you choose? Stick to persons that are living and not members of your family, and let me know who you would pick.
A special prize of select Commonwealth [...]
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
I've always thought Gregg Easterbrook was one of the best science/environmental writers out there, but I haven't seen any recent writings until today.
He's posted a Slate article on the NASA budget. Everyone should be able to find something disturbing in his analysis.
My pet disturbance is the lack of any viable asteroid-blaster, or, to express [...]
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Who should I see striding down Main Street in downtown Richmond today but Senator John Warner, leaving three younger men struggling to keep up.
He ducked into Nathan's.
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
I just received a couple of items from Amazon, and I'm pretty excited about both of them:
--Baseball Prospectus. I've gotten this book for the last six years, and there isn't a better baseball annual on the market. Fantastic. I can't wait to dig into it.
--The Complete Third Season of NewsRadio. If [...]
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
If anyone's interested, I'll be on "Charlottesville—Right Now" with Coy Barefoot on 1070 WINA around 5 pm today.
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